Savatheda Fynes
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | 4x100 m relay |
| Silver | 1996 Atlanta | 4x100 m relay |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 1999 Seville | 4x100 m relay |
| Bronze | 1997 Athens | 100 m |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| Gold | 2002 Manchester | 4x100 m relay |
| Bronze | 2002 Manchester | 100 m |
| CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) |
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| Gold | 1992 Nassau | 200m |
| Silver | 1993 Fort-de-France | 100m |
| Silver | 1993 Fort-de-France | 4x100m relay |
| Silver | 1993 Fort-de-France | 4x400m relay |
| Silver | 1992 Nassau | 100m |
| Silver | 1992 Nassau | 4x100m relay |
| Silver | 1992 Nassau | 4x400m relay |
| Silver | 1991 Port of Spain | 100m |
| Bronze | 1993 Fort-de-France | 200m |
| CARIFTA Games Youth (U17) |
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| Bronze | 1990 Kingston | 100m |
Savatheda Fynes (born October 17, 1974) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. Some sources spell her first name "Sevatheda."
She graduated Physiology and Exercise Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. She missed the 2001 World Championships due to injury. She had a minor car accident prior to the 2000 Olympic trials, which limited her training. At the World Championships in 1999 she was eliminated in semifinals due to an injured hip flexor. In 1996 a hamstring injury kept her out of the 100m at the Atlanta Games.
She was a member of the Bahamas 4x100m relay team that won gold at the 1999 World Championships. After that performance the team of Fynes, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Chandra Sturrup and Eldece Clark-Lewis were dubbed the Golden Girls. When they won the relay again at the Sydney Olympics they showed the world why they had earned that name. The girls returned home from Sydney to a six-day fanfare of festivities in their honor, from receptions and parades to monetary awards and land grants. Central Bank has even been commissioned to mint a commemorative gold coin to honour their victory.
She earned an athletic scholarship to Southern University in New Orleans, Louisiana, but later transferred to Eastern Michigan University and then to Michigan State University.
She was forced to sit out the 1996 season because she was a transfer. She attended an indoor meet that year and stayed in a hotel room paid for by Michigan State. That being a violation, she lost her final season of eligibility in 1998, and her coach lost her job.
[edit] Personal bests
- 100 metres: 10.91 seconds in Lausanne 1999
- 60 metres: 7.01 seconds in Maebashi 1999
- 50 metres: 6.05 seconds in Liévin 2000
[edit] References
- IAAF profile for Savatheda Fynes
- Sports References, spelled Sevatheda Fynes
- Bahamas Olympic Bio
- Michigan State
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Bahamian athletes
- Sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Olympic athletes of the Bahamas
- Olympic gold medalists for the Bahamas
- Olympic silver medalists for the Bahamas
- Michigan State Spartans athletes
- Eastern Michigan University alumni
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
